If the rumors are true and MCH is selfish DNC is full support, and BRD is in the middle, I might make BRD my main, although DNC seems amazing (again if the rumors are true about them). Regardless, what's going to happen is I get one job to max and just wanna focus on leveling more.

I was part of a community that operated on a similar principle to try to push people to affiliate as fast as possible, and then people basically just stopped watching them. I got affiliate and quickly realized no one was actually, you know, interested in helping me grow. The second I hit affiliate my numbers plummeted as only people who actually gave a shit about me showed up anymore. It sucked, honestly. The group had something like 5,000 people and they regularly did partner pushes but they were always for people who were administrators in the community; realistically, the odds that you would ever make Partner there were astronomically small (even compared to making it normally). I joined a smaller subset of that team that had like 100-200 people and we eventually split off because we all got sick of it.

I just want to add something and my own opinion here.I've been on twitch for 4 years bounced around teams, and the whole "We NEED to get this person affiliated push" is awful because of the reason you are presenting; a handful of team members crowd this new streamer, he gets affiliated and get his temporary moment of happiness, and everyone leaves to the next person "desperately" wanting affiliate status. This is another issue with "Partner Push". Heard many stories of people achieveing partner and losing viewership because the viewers mindset is "My work here is down, onto the next". (Actually read DMs sent to partners with those exact words)

And my opinion on very large stream teams are at the end of the day, it's still a place where streamers interact with other streamers rather than "Let's share/merge our communities so we can both grow." (If that makes any sense)

TLDR: Status Pushes on Stream Teams are both effective for short term growth & status but ineffective for long term overall growth.

I tried PvP for the first time yesterday (because I figured out what Garo was and got excited for more mount opportunities) and it's really fun, wish queue times were faster but overall I really enjoy it. Feast is really intense as any job and I enjoy the massive battles of front lines; yet to do Rival Wings because the queue times average around 35-40 minutes.

I really want that mount but I'm like a pretty fresh 70 and kind of nervous to do it or any extreme for that matter. I know the FF community is nicer but the wow toxic raid groups have made me self conscious on attempting anything named Extreme lol.

I would consider myself at least somewhat competent at the game, but to me it feels like one step out of line or one step off cadence and im blacklisted from raiding forever. I know its not actually like that, but my stupid brain doesn't let me think like that lol. Maybe one day i'll have enough confidence to step into savage

I think it's because I've never raided in FF other than duty finder (again I didn't play enough when I did to get near raiding) but for Shadowbringers, I plan on at least trying to raid. I did mythic prog in WoW but it was with very close friends so messing up was less of an issue.